Twitter user @theregoesbabs claimed that she sat on her plane and looked on as the animal was left in its carrier on the wet runway for over half an hour, despite staff having been alerted. The picture has since been retweeted over a thousand times.

United Airlines responded quickly and shifted blame for the overlooked pooch onto its (apparently erroneously named) PetSafe program, which is responsible for airport-to-airport delivery of animals.

@theregoesbabs Thanks for telling us. The weather can change & may have been clear when PetSafe dropped off. They're the ones to call too.

The singer's retweet of the picture received over four thousand retweets by itself. We hope the dog made it back safely to its owner and is currently curled up in front of a fire dreaming about sausages. Or whatever dogs dream about.